Unnamed Laura who failed to sufficiently honor Catholic College’s mission
Hemingway started out as a reporter with no college degree. Student Laura X at a Catholic College in Miami might want to do the same.
Barry University has suspended a student reporter for her participation in a Project Veritas video that featured a university coordinator assisting in the creation of an ISIS club on campus.
The student journalist, identified only as Laura, recorded her efforts trying to launch a “Sympathetic Students in Support of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria,” student group last week.
This morning, she received an emailed notice from Maria Alvarez, the university’s associate vice president and dean of students, stating she had been suspended over allegations that her reporting violated the university’s Code of Conduct.
“In response to complaints filed by members of the University community on Wednesday, April 3, and received by my office this morning, April 6, 2015, your alleged actions were the cause root of disruption of the University community and the creation of a hostile environment for members of the University staff,” the notice read. “Because these alleged actions violate Barry University’s Code of Conduct, effective immediately you are placed on Interim Suspension from Barry University.”
The university’s Code of Conduct demands that “[m]embers of the campus community must act out of mutual respect to establish an atmosphere of trust,” and that enrollment at the school “presumes an obligation on the part of the student to act at all times in a manner compatible with the university’s purpose, processes and functions.”
Of course, in order to have trust and be respected you have to be trustworthy and respectable, yes?
If I had to be part of an organization which demanded I “act at all times in a manner compatible” with it’s “purpose, processes and functions,” I’d run for the door. That’s because I would be not in the bosom of a Catholic school, but the grip of an Orwellian network which cared nothing for my life nor the lives of victims anywhere.
During the suspension, Laura is forbidden from visiting the Barry University campus or attending classes.